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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vampires
Fascinating Vampire Lore from Eastern Europe, Greece, Italy, and the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
Vampires are the hottest topic in popular culture today. From the now classic novels of Anne Rice, to the mega-selling series by Stephanie Meyer to the hit HBO series True Blood based on the bestselling novels of Charlaine Harris, the undead are certainly not dead in terms of books sales. Now, those...
by Ken Gelder
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2002
Insatiable bloodlust, dangerous sexualities, the horror of the undead, uncharted Trannsylvanian wildernesses, and a morbid fascination with the `other': the legend of the vampire continues to haunt popular imagination.
Reading the Vampire examines the vampire in all its various manifestations and...
Outlaw Culture
Resisting Representations
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore bell hooks' electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches. As hooks herself...
by Ruth Dickson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
If you’re going to adopt a philosophy to live by, make it one that gets your heart pumping and unleashes your spirit of adventure!
Married Men Make the Best Lovers is a classic, smart, and sassy advice book from the 1960s, the heyday of the sexual revolution. As one of the most outspoken...
Reflections In My Coffee With An Extra Shot Of Life - Volume 1
Reflections In My Coffee, #1
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Why should you read this book? Because it's really about you. You have a story that is worth careful consideration. Do you ever feel like life gets a little crazy and hard to handle sometimes? You're not alone. And you're not without hope.
Each morning my wife Angelica and I like to enjoy our...
Star Wars Meets the Eras of Feminism
Weighing All the Galaxy’s Women Great and Small
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Star Wars defined popular, big-screen science fiction. Still, what many viewers best recall is assertive, hilarious Leia, the diminutive princess with a giant blaster who had to save them all. As the 1977 film arrived, women were marching for equality and demanding equal pay, with few onscreen role...
by Goh Pei Ki
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
This book on the origins of the festivals and popular stories associated with them will help the reader to appreciate how the celebration of these festivals acted as a social glue in identifying and helping the Chinese stick together as a race throughout their long history and wherever they are found.
Motorsports and American Culture
From Demolition Derbies to NASCAR
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Soon after the first automobiles were introduced in the United States, auto racing became a reality. Since that time, motorsports have expanded to include drag racing, open wheel racing, rallying, demolition derbies, stock car racing, and more. Motorsports have grown to such an extent that NASCAR...
Media Virus!
Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
The most virulent viruses today are composed of information. In this information-driven age, the easiest way to manipulate the culture is through the media. A hip and caustically humorous McLuhan for the '90s, culture watcher Douglas Rushkoff now offers a fascinating expose of media manipulation in today's age of instant information.
Getting a Life
The Social Worlds of Geek Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Comic book superheroes, fantasy kingdoms, and futuristic starships have become inescapable features of today’s pop-culture landscape, and the people we used to deride as “nerds” or “geeks” have ridden their popularity and visibility to mainstream recognition. It seems it’s finally hip...
Extreme Bricks
Spectacular, Record-Breaking, and Astounding LEGO Projects from around the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
From the Great Pyramid of Giza and Stonehenge to the Colosseum and the Taj Mahal, man has never shied away from an extreme building challenge, and the LEGO builders of the twenty-first century are no different. Whether they’re re-creating the works of ancient masters in brick form, building life-size...
by Susan B. Kaiser
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Bridging theory and practice, this accessible text provides an introduction to fashion from both cultural studies and fashion studies perspectives, and addresses the growing interaction between the two fields.
Cultural studies relies on fashion to exemplify change as well as continuity, examine...
The Looks of Love
50 Moments in Fashion That Inspired Romance
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Hal Rubenstein, fashion authority, consultant, and author of the bestselling 100 Unforgettable Dresses, presents fifty of the most influential romantic moments in style from the 1930s to today, in this full-color collection that reveals each item's indelible place in the pantheons of fashion and popular...
by Lucy Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
A BELOVED CLASSIC FOR DOG LOVERS OF ALL AGES
With a new foreword by Ann Patchett
In the 1930s, Lucy Dawson’s friendly, sympathetic portraits of dogs were so popular with readers of American and British magazines that she agreed to gather them together in a book, Dogs As I See Them.
Now...